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Summary: The Edge of Honor is a great book for Navy buffs
Review: As a Vietnam era Naval Officer, I can attest that the problems which faced LT. Holcomb on the Hood are real ones faced by naval officer during that time, and I suspect that the pressures faced by Maddy at home would be very real to a Navy wife left at home while her husband was deployed. I highly recommend this book
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Summary: Accurate, realistic and suspenseful: almost too real.
Review: As I read further into the book, I started to wonder if the author was not describing my own ship as I was a QM2 standing my own QMOW watches on board the USS Preble(DLG-15) during 1968 in particular. Many of the events that did and were taking place in the book started to be real re-enactments of my experience on the ship. Mr. Deutermann then clarified that the Hood was another ship and the Preble was a shipped summoned for assistance. The book was very well written and grabbed the reader in terms of suspense and emotion and I would recommend "The Edge of Honor" to both readers who may have a military interest and/or background, as well as, the reader interested in adventure, action, suspense and emotion in one book. The author certainly brings a qualified and realistic insight to his work. I look forward to reading more work from Mr. Deutermann.
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Summary: BRAVO ZULU
Review: For those us that experienced Viet Nam as junior officers in the United State Navy, this book is more fact then fiction. Americans would be well served if this novel is made into a movie, providing of course that Mr. Deutermann is given complete artistic control. America needs another glimpse of this part of our history as seen through the eyes of young Americans in a bad place, at a bad time, doing the best job they can. To all that shared this experience and to P.T.Deutermann, Capt., USN, I say Bravo Zulu and godspeed.
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Summary: P.T. Deutermann blends techno-thrills with human emotion.
Review: P.T. Deutermann's style makes his books a very easy and enjoyable read. He is able to blend a techno-thriller style with day-to-day human emotions and problems. I've read both of his books and they are among the best that I read during 1996. I always look forward to getting his books as soon as they are on the market
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Summary: Too Much Jargon, Not Enough Style
Review: The Edge of Honor, written by a retired Navy captain, tries hard to bring the reader into the Navy world and capture the reader's imagination, but doesn't quite succeed. With its stiff prose and bland characters, the novel plods along without building much suspense until two-thirds of the way through, when plot, action, and character finally combine to produce a page-turner. Until that point, however, the military jargon is overwhelming, even with a glossary included at the back of the book. Deutermann's attempt to have the reader learn along with the new guy simply makes the hero look unappealingly naive. A few scenes of life aboard a ship in the Gulf of Tonkin during the Vietnam war are extraneous to the plot, do not build character, and are not strong enough in a literary sense to merit inclusion in the book.Retired navy personnel may find this novel an intriguing description of an ultimately dysfunctional ship, but to the outsider it has little to offer.
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Summary: Too Much Jargon, Not Enough Style
Review: The Edge of Honor, written by a retired Navy captain, tries hard to bring the reader into the Navy world and capture the reader's imagination, but doesn't quite succeed. With its stiff prose and bland characters, the novel plods along without building much suspense until two-thirds of the way through, when plot, action, and character finally combine to produce a page-turner. Until that point, however, the military jargon is overwhelming, even with a glossary included at the back of the book. Deutermann's attempt to have the reader learn along with the new guy simply makes the hero look unappealingly naive. A few scenes of life aboard a ship in the Gulf of Tonkin during the Vietnam war are extraneous to the plot, do not build character, and are not strong enough in a literary sense to merit inclusion in the book. Retired navy personnel may find this novel an intriguing description of an ultimately dysfunctional ship, but to the outsider it has little to offer.
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Summary: BRAVO ZULU
Review: This is a great book from the perspective of someone who actually served in Combat Information Center on board the ship which was used as the model for the book. I was dissappointed in the drug related issue since drugs were few and far between on the ship at that time. It took the shine off an otherwise stellar read. In all other aspects. particularly the operations and technical info this was first rate with few exceptions.
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Summary: A concise, accurate and well written naval fiction.
Review: This is a great book from the perspective of someone who actually served in Combat Information Center on board the ship which was used as the model for the book. I was dissappointed in the drug related issue since drugs were few and far between on the ship at that time. It took the shine off an otherwise stellar read. In all other aspects. particularly the operations and technical info this was first rate with few exceptions.
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Summary: Excellent Sea Story
Review: This is the best contemporary Navy story I have read. Many of us who served in the Navy in that era fought the same fights on our ships as did LT Holcumb on the mythical Hood. (Don't think the problem Holcomb had on the Hood didn't exist - it did. We had a similar experience with drug use on my ship as several key personnel we were removed from duty at a critical time.) The CIC scenes in the book are excellent - they brought back memories of long, difficult watches. The relationship between Holcomb and his Chief is well done - with Holcomb trying to learn from the more experienced man, while trying to provide leadership. Further, Deutermann well describes the loneliness and stuggles faced by spouses left behind when the ship deployed. While I am an avid reader, I rarely reread a book. However, I've reread this one several times. It is highly reccommended. REC
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Summary: Excellent Sea Story
Review: This is the best contemporary Navy story I have read. Many of us who served in the Navy in that era fought the same fights on our ships as did LT Holcumb on the mythical Hood. (Don't think the problem Holcomb had on the Hood didn't exist - it did. We had a similar experience with drug use on my ship as several key personnel we were removed from duty at a critical time.) The CIC scenes in the book are excellent - they brought back memories of long, difficult watches. The relationship between Holcomb and his Chief is well done - with Holcomb trying to learn from the more experienced man, while trying to provide leadership. Further, Deutermann well describes the loneliness and stuggles faced by spouses left behind when the ship deployed. While I am an avid reader, I rarely reread a book. However, I've reread this one several times. It is highly reccommended. REC
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